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Snails Survive Being Eaten and Excreted by Birds

Tiny snails can actually benefit from being eaten by birds, according to a new study that found about 15 percent of the snails eaten by two species of bird survived their journey through the birds' guts and out the other end. The birds appear to spread the snails they have...
Stunning Sands Gallery: A Rainbow of Beaches

A Rainbow of Sands (Image credit: Alainlee | sxc.hu)Summer brings to mind images of beaches with warm yellow sand, but there's actually an entire rainbow of unique-colored beaches. Let's start with red … Cabot Beach, located near Malpeque at the northern shore of Canada's Prince Edward Island, boasts clay-red sands....

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Want a Big Brain? Head North
Want a Big Brain? Head North
Brains are larger in those who live farther from the equator — in order to help them see better, researchers now suspect. Scientists have long known that brain volume increases with latitude — that is, the closer one gets to the poles. That might be mistaken for implying that intelligence...
8 Ways to Ruin Your Relationship
8 Ways to Ruin Your Relationship
While most of the time we try and stay positive here on World of Psychology, every now and again reality sucker-punches us back to our senses (although not personally affecting me). The fact remains that despite our wise advice over the years, we haven't budged the divorce rate in the...
Benign Brain Tumors Not Linked to Cell Phones
Benign Brain Tumors Not Linked to Cell Phones
Using a cell phone for many years does not increase the risk of developing a benign type of brain tumor, a new Danish study finds. Those in the study who used cell phones for 11 years or more were no more likely to develop these tumors, known as vestibular schwannomas,...
Engineering a New Face After Injury
Engineering a New Face After Injury
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Today, surgeons face many limitations when it comes to helping a patient who suffers from a severe craniofacial injury, or an injury pertaining to the skull and the face. Most often a result of...
Sea Serpent Hunt Underway in Alaska
Sea Serpent Hunt Underway in Alaska
Video footage obtained from the waters off the coast of Alaska in 2009 contains what some claim is strong evidence of a sea serpent. It was examined by brothers Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand, captains of a fishing boat featured on the television show Deadliest Catch, who then decided to hunt...
Physicists Discover New Subatomic Particle
Physicists Discover New Subatomic Particle
High-speed collisions at a giant atom smasher have produced what physicists say is a new particle, a heavier relative of the familiar neutron. The particle is called the neutral Xi-sub-b. When it's formed in the Fermilab Tevatron particle accelerator in Batavia, Ill., the neutral Xi-sub-b lasts just a mere instant...
How to Launch a Rocket into Space in 5 (...4...3...2...1) Steps
How to Launch a Rocket into Space in 5 (...4...3...2...1) Steps
With the Space Shuttle officially retired in Florida, NASA astronauts could use a lift to the International Space Station. Want to start your own interstellar livery service? We asked John Malinzak, a rocket scientist at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, for a few tips on how to get from Earth into...
Chimpanzees Dogged By Image Problem
Chimpanzees Dogged By Image Problem
Chimpanzees have an image problem. The portrayal of these great apes in commercials, movies and greeting cards may lead people to perceive them as appealing potential pets and overlook their endangered status, a new study indicates. A survey of 1,203 people showed that specific features of an image — in...

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